Mayaprayoga, Māyāprayoga, Maya-prayoga: 3 definitions
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Mayaprayoga means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryMāyāprayoga (मायाप्रयोग).—
1) deceitfulness, employment of tricks or fraud; मायाप्रयोगः प्रिये (māyāprayogaḥ priye) Pañcatantra (Bombay) 1.19.
2) employment of magic.
Derivable forms: māyāprayogaḥ (मायाप्रयोगः).
Māyāprayoga is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms māyā and prayoga (प्रयोग).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryMāyāprayoga (मायाप्रयोग).—m.
(-gaḥ) 1. Application of tricks. 2. Employment of magic.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Māyāprayoga (मायाप्रयोग):—[=māyā-prayoga] [from māyā > māya] m. the application or employment of magic, [Pañcatantra]
2) [v.s. ...] deceitfulness, [Apte’s The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Partial matches: Maya, Prayoga.
Full-text: Kathay.
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